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Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A YXE teacher is concerned by extremely high rates of absenteeism and sickness among students:
I’m in my 25th year of teaching and I’ve never witnessed so much illness among students in my career. My students had high rates of absenteeism in September when many had COVID.
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At least 50% of my students missed at least 3 days in September. Some missed more than a week of school. When kids started to fall ill at the start of November, I assumed it was the next COVID wave. Every day for two weeks 8-12 kids were missing and it hit nearly all kids.
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Nov 12, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
We’re going to share messages from teachers who are seeing abnormally high rates of absenteeism and sickness among there students. Here’s one send over a week ago:
As a Regina high school teacher, I haven't seen this level of illness in my 25 years of teaching. 1
Some is covid, but there also seems to be a lot of bronchitis, mono, colds, etc. People don't seem to make the connection that having a covid infection can negatively affect your immune system and then you are more likely to get sick with these other non-covid illnesses. 2
Jan 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
School divisions have been left in the unenviable position of having to make public health decisions that fall far outside of their expertise. There is no consistency or transparency.
Families and school staff deserve to know how many cases are in their school.
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There should be thresholds that trigger certain measures, and every stakeholder should know what those thresholds & measures are.
Instead of a predictable, transparent set of measures, our government opted for no plan. They opted for chaos. They opted to keep us in the dark. 2/7
Jan 18, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Long 🧵 if a message in our inbox:
I writing this in a DM as we have not shared with many people that one of our 3 children was diagnosed in the end of November with autism. This has been a battle for 10 years to try and sort out. We thought things were finally coming 1/
together, we got a diagnosis and the right doors were finally opening. In early December our daughter became a close contact at school and we had to cancel all her different therapy appointments.
We skipped Christmas with all our families in the hope of keeping everyone safe 2/
Jan 12, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This is a thread about the current state of education in the city of Saskatoon. We have been asked by a teacher to share this anonymously.
1.) The SHA @SaskHealth is not tracking cases at schools besides those that are done with a PCR through the health region.
2.) Parents no longer have any way to know how many cases are in a school b/c most cases are found through rapid test
3.) Cases reported differently in SDs. One reports all known cases in a daily letter to entire school community. The other sends them to impacted classes only.
Apr 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Struggling to understand the COVID VOCs? Want to know more? Maybe you have friends and family who could use a little help to understand what's changed.
Check out this video. It's short and easy to understand.
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Like, share, spread the info. 1/
What's the difference between the different COVID VOCs?
How are they changing the pandemic in Saskatchewan?
Check out this infographic.
This is not the same old pandemic.
Like, share, and spread the info.
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Apr 26, 2021 • 11 tweets • 9 min read
Today we're going to tweet stories of children who have lost their parents, and parents who have lost their children. These are heartbreaking stories. SK schools have a moral obligation to stop community spread and put schools online. @StoonPubSchools@GSCSNews @stoonteachers 1/
Single dad, Cory Charles, 32, tested + on March 29, on April 7 he died in his sleep. He leaves behind 2 school aged kids. School divisions have a moral obligation to stop community transmission by going online. bit.ly/3aIWKEy @ChinookSD@LightofChristCS@LskySD 2/
Apr 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Innocent children are being used by adults today in Saskatoon to protest the "lockdown" WITH people refusing to isolate after being exposed at a similar rally in PA. You can be sure they'll be sending their kids to school. It’s not fair to @StoonPubSchools and @GSCSNews staff. 1/
The organizers use coded language like a dog whistle to appear to be working for the better good. 2/
Apr 24, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
All Ed. workers have the right to refuse unsafe work. If ever there was a time, it’s now. What’s the process? We asked a labour lawyer to give us the straight goods. While this is an individual process, there is still strength in numbers. #RefuseUnsafeWork#COVID19SK
